Enable L2Cache.....in Windows XP/2000


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The L2, or second-level, cache, is an integral part of your CPU. However, XP is very shoddy at detecting it, so setting it manually is sometimes necessary. It's easy to do, though, you simply have to navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory Management

in the registry and find the value SecondLevelDataCache. You must then adjust it to the value (in kilobytes) of the L2 Cache of your processor.

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Look a here cowboy......you want a scientific proof.....then use "trial and error." Try the son of a b*tch out and if it don't do anything for you then that's your problem.....Not mine. I get much better performance.......what you still want numbers? Well too bad 'cause I got a life and I got stuff to do....girlfriends to do and that type of stuff. Give it a try. There's nothing more I can tell you!

I don't understand that the only way people can get rid of their own lack of knowledge is by being rude on various community groups.

By the way have you ever tried a utility (Free) which is called Mathlon that allows you to choose the speed of your L2 Cache where a lot of misbehaving is caused by the L2 is running to fast this utility will reconize most CPU'sbelow is the site you can download it from:

http://www.planetmirror.com/pub/3dfiles/tw...akfiles/memory/http://www.planetmirror.com/pub/3dfiles/tw...akfiles/memory/ :)

:) :) :)

some people just won't listen to the facts. fact: enabling the L2 cache boosts performance. There's no other way of me providing scientific proof than that. I didn't invent it...I'm just putting to use. And if you think I'm being rude....well then you try and explain to someone why Microsoft doesn't have it enabled by default. Hell who cares why!!! I don't work at microsoft and I don't care....just getting it to work is fine by me.

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I did the tweak as you said I enteren 256 as decimal but when I open the thread again it goes to hex and it is 100.

That is the way it is supposed to be. The hex value is 100 and the decimal value is 256. If you made the hex value 256 then the decimal value would be 598.

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it should say "SecondLevelDataCache"=dword:00000256 after you're done. Just enter 256 after going to modify by right clicking.

Well, if i enter 256 in Decimal...it doesn't turn out to be dword:00000256 , but instead it appears as:

"dword:00000100(256)"

???

:s

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